Lauryn Hill – Consumerism (lyric video)
VHVL – female experimental beat producer out of NYC drops a new laid-back, smoked-out project ///
Big Juss – 1/3 of Company Flow, Big Juss drops a grimey/industrial/hip hop album (2012) driven by social consciousness entitled Machines that Make Civilization Fun
Melanin 9 – Orion’s Stencil classic 2010 album by UK MC
Christoph El Truento – Live on 95bpm Breakfast CLub Download mp3 (right-click and save)
Tuamie – Masta Killa
Knxwledge – Ovrstnd.A.sde
Ohbliv – 3_4 13
Ackryte – Rare Air
Via Pragmatic Theory Bandcamp –
After five months since the last Pragmatic Theory mc album, the Pragmatic Theory collective with addition to contributed tracks from acts such as The Doppelgangaz x Apathy, Sene x blu, & UK’s Melanin 9, Verbal Architecture is an international coalescence of hip hop poetry.
Featuring :
TASK1ne, Melanin 9 x Triple Darkness, Slim Pickens, The Doppelgangaz x Apathy, Jondis, Sene x Blu x Anthm x Britain Parker, Stainless Steele, Chromadadata, Supreme Sol, Chel Strong, Kal-L, Phlo Deli, W.O.L.M, Wood Ox, Defcee, Praverb the Wyse x Don Streat, Cayoz, The Benchwarmers Clique, Reflectionz, Corsairs (Cor Stidak x RaSun), Redi Brown, The Paramedics, Benjamin Earl Turner, Ibn Hasan x Glyph
Knxwledge releases Part 5 of his WrapTaypes series that features warm and dirty remixes of some well known and obscure verses from a variety of rapper.
Thundercat is set to release his new album Apocalypse on Brainfeeder records produced by Flying Lotus. Here is one of the first singles off the album. Stream his new album in its entirety on NPR here.
Flako, electronic producer from the UK remixes “Youthern” by Cloud Boat
Via Cosmic Compositions –
We feel there are huge similarity’s between the Avant-Garde/Free Jazz movement of the 50’s & 60’s & the beat movement of Today. As both movements attempted to break down, extend & alter the conventions of their original genres (Jazz & Hip Hop) & were never afraid to experiment & improvise to create something that wasn’t accepted commercially at the time.
This compilation is a dedication to American jazz pianist, organist, harpist and composer Alice Coltrane.
”She was central to the Indocentric/Spiritual jazz of the early ’70s and arguably the first instance of a female instrumentalist assuming a defining role in a jazz subgenre. She spent the majority of her life seeking spiritually in both music and her private life & shared her husband’s [Jazz Legend John Coltrane] instincts in taking great artistic risks to pursue a spiritual quest.” – Jazz Times
Pragmatic Theory – “Phonaesthetics” Is a FREE DOWNLOAD available on bandcamp brought to you in conjunction with Rhythm22.com.
Features tracks from:
Melanin 9 x Anatomy, Fish Grease x Es-k, Ibn Hasan x Glyphick, Dudley Perkins x Georgia Anne Muldrow, Defcee and Wizard Jenkins the Great x Sev Seveer, Jondis x Keor Meteor, Wyatt x 5th Sequence, Don Cerino x Chromadadata, Gigio x DJ Sapien, Phlo Deli x Funky Notes, The Benchwarmers Clique x Jewbei, W.O.L.M (NRS) x Afryx, The Paramedics x Nextwon, Disturbance x Mr. Troy, Redi Brown x JP Balboa, Dregs One x J-Felix, Cor Stidak x Byrdversion1, Prozak Morris.
Listen, Download & Enjoy… Peace…
Phonaesthetics – “The study of the inherent pleasantness (euphony) of the sound of certain words, phrases, and sentences. Poetry is considered euphonic, as is well-crafted literary prose. Important phonaesthetic devices of poetry are rhyme, assonance and alliteration.”
Lapalux, experimental/electronic producer from the UK, prepares to release his new album Nostalgic, March 25th on the Brainfeeder label. He’s released some new material including a track off the album. Lapalux’ sound consistently possesses many lush layers of atmosphere and a line of percussion and synths that carries the track to it’s final destination.
The Mighty Jungle – Icesickle feat Miranda Rae
Infinite Potentials – Klashnekoff – All I Got in (Infinite Potentials remix)
Toro Y Moi – “So Many Details” video
Young Montana? electronic producer from the UK first started getting a buzz in the electronic music scene when Mary Anne Hobbs was calling him the up and coming artist to check for a little over a year ago on BBC radio 1. Since then YM? has dropped a full length album Limerence on Alpha Pup records. Here he is with his latest unofficial release (streaming only), a series of remixes from 2011 – 2012.
Lapalux, experimental/electronic producer from the UK releases the first single “Forgetting and Learning Again (feat. Kerry Leatham)” from his new EP Some Other Time which comes out October 16th on Flying Lotus’ Label Brainfeeder.
MustardSeed out of Canada drops a lovely remix of City and Colour’s track “Fragile Bird”. Video done by UK videographer Tom Hardy. The song is available for free download on the SoundCloud player. Both MustardSeed and Tom Hardy are members of The Midnight Kids Academy.
Rise and the Solar Sound System aka Mecca:83 has released projects under both names in 2011. The UK producer’s sound and influence is rooted in Spiritual Jazz and Hip Hop. Various samples and reworks can be found in his material from artists such as Pharoah Sanders, Alice Coltrane and Jay Dilla. In his 2011 release “Messages” under the Rise alias he reworks various spiritual jazz records to give them a hip hop vibe but manages to maintain the energy and spirit of the sound nicely.
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